Unless my current internet connection becomes more reliable, I think that this will be my last official post for THST 2450, the class that required me to start this blog.
Calm down though, because this is not the end of the blog, or my posts, or anything like that. With its grounding as an academic assignment, [...]
Archive for April 4th, 2008
The Future of the Blog
Posted in Miscellaneous on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Yes Men
Posted in Movies on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Watching the Yes Men always gets me really excited. Maybe it’s because I like rooting for the underdog, and maybe it’s because I agree with their cause. I also thinks it’s possible because I like being in on the joke and to watch people get duped. Any way you look at it, this leads to [...]
Oppsitional Politics and Technology
Posted in Articles on April 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today I finally finished reading the article Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach by Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner. I felt very conflicted about whether or not I wanted to like this article, or maybe if society has moved a bit past what I felt to be the overall problem they were [...]
Tools of the Trade
Posted in Articles on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps this post should have come before the last one, but in this I will focus a bit on the positives of culture jamming and the Truth campaign, which I find to be very effective. This post is in reference to the Christine Harold article, Pranking rhetoric: “culture jamming” as media activism.
In my last post [...]
Culture Jamming
Posted in Articles on April 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So this is the first of four posts dedicated to some of the final articles we’ve had to read for the course. This post will focus on the Bart Cammaerts article, Jamming the Political: Beyond Counter-hegemonic Practices
There’s a paragraph towards the end of the essay that really made me think, and will help me make [...]
